News and Updates

USDA Training Offerings

Who: Suggested for project teams providing technical assistance

What: The event will focus on American Iron & Steel (AIS) for the first part of each day and the electronic Preliminary Engineering Report (ePER) for the second part of each day. Both topics will include sessions highlighting Basics, Best Practices, Trends/Issues, Discussion, Q&As of each topic.

Why: Project teams respond to communities in a range of ways. This training bolsters your knowledge on topics that are commonly found in the scopes of work of many CECorps projects.

Does your scope include assessing solution viability and potentially drafting budgets for implementation?

Do you know if you need to comply with AIS?

Will your community need a PER to secure grant funding or a loan?

If your answer is “yes” to any of these questions, this training is for you!!

Where: 4 separate offerings in Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah

How:Register and RSVP!

Please RSVP (name and email address) if you plan to attend in person or via webinar (to receive the participant link) to either Hiwot Gebremariam (hiwot.gebremariam@wdc.usda.gov) or Nicole Schindler (nicole.schindler@wdc.usda.gov). Also, provide questions for the Q&A portion by the deadline listed under each date.

FEBRUARY 8, 2018 | South Carolina

For the South Carolina event, partners representing the South (AL, GA, FL, LA, MS, NC, SC, and TN) are encouraged to attend either in person or via webinar (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8564757262785724931). Please provide all questions for the Q&A by January 19th.

MARCH 8, 2018 | Salt Lake City, UT

For the Utah event, partners representing the West (AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, NV, NM, OK, OR, TX, UT and WA) are encouraged to attend either in person or via webinar (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4437656805044846851). Please provide all questions for the Q&A by February 20th.

APRIL 5, 2018 | Minneapolis, MN

For the Minnesota event, partners representing the Midwest (IL, IA, KS, MN, MO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WI and WY) are encouraged to attend either in person or via webinar (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6688464859241894403). Please provide all questions for the Q&A by March 20th.

MAY 3, 2018 | Columbus, OH

For the Ohio event, partners representing the Northeast (CT/MA/RI, IN, KY, ME, MI, NH/VT, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA, and WV) are encouraged to attend either in person or via webinar (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6095571905661400067). Please provide all questions for the Q&A by April 17th.